When comparing Feedly vs Paperoak, the Slant community recommends Feedly for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?”Feedly is ranked 2nd while Paperoak is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Feedly is:

Feedly has an easy to overview interface. While this interface is clean and simple, it is still full of bright colors.
A great feature that adds to the clean feel is "eliminate clutter", which keeps only the text of the desired topic.

Pro

Browser extensions

Pro

Open API

There are multitudes of third party clients available for many platforms.

Pro

IFTTT and Zapier integration (Paid)

Feedly functionality can be extended and workflows automated with IFTTT and Zapier integrations that make it possible to connect the reader with hundreds of popular apps.

Pro

Boards for organising the content (Paid)

Feedly allows you to create unlimited Boards (folders/sets/collections) and use them to organise your saved content.

Pro

Doesn't contain ads

Pro

It's free

Pro

It's fast

Pro

Supports multiple languages like English, German, Portuguese at the same time

Pro

Can save articles offline by adding them to your bookmarks

Pro

Website and Android application for reading

Pro

OPML Import

You can now import feed using an OPML file on the web app which will then be automatically synced with your android app.

Pro

Import RSS/Atom feed

You can now import RSS/Atom feeds right from within the Android app.

Cons

Con

Long list of paid-only features

Free features are pretty basic. It seems like all the new development goes into paid-only features. Paid features include sharing and saving options, alerts, backup, support or integrations with collaborative tools.

Con

No keyword filtering

Feedly has no ability to filter a feed by keyword like a lot of other RSS readers do.

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No offline support

There is no offline support with the official client.

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Forces external account to log in

Users are forced to use Twitter, Facebook, Google, or Microsoft login credentials.

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No push notifications

Among the most requested features for Feedly is push notification support. The feature was officially requested in 2011 and currently has over 600 votes on Feedly's Uservoice.

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Steals page views

Feedly has had issues multiple times with hijacking page views from original publishers. See:

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